Brown pleads in Jeddah for more oil and £100bn of investment in UK
FÎRST of all we saw the Bush-Blair attack on Iraq, whose strategic purpose was to expropriate Iraq’s oil in order to lower the world...
‘Oppressed will rise all over the world’ – says Iranian president
Iran’s president-elect Mahmood Ahmadinejad has hailed his election win as a new Islamic revolution which he said he hoped would now spread its way...
Inflation up as Blair-Brown move to cut wages!
INFLATION in the UK is accelerating out of control. According to the latest Labour government figures which grossly underestimate the process the Consumer...
Youth slave labour plan by Osborne and Co
THE Tory Prime Minister Cameron and his LibDem Deputy Clegg visited the Olympic site in Stratford yesterday to spell out that the only future...
Tunisian Revolution Brings Down Interior Minister
TUNISIAN President Ben Ali has dismissed his interior minister and ordered the release of most of those detained during the current clashes over food...
Afghanistan bound or out of the frying pan into the fire
YESTERDAY the Italian Prime Minister, Prodi in his first speech to the Senate as Prime Minister said that the war in Iraq had been...
Live8 won’t comment on ‘don’t attack Bush’ line
YESTERDAY the PR company representing Live8, LD Publicity, refused to deny media allegations that Bob Geldof, the Live8 movement’s leader, had a soft spot...
Revolution and counter-revolution in Bahrain and Libya
THE US State Department urged US citizens on Tuesday not to travel to Bahrain and suggested Americans there should leave at once due ...
Wild optimism at Davos
The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum at the Swiss ski resort of Davos, ended last Saturday. The four days of the forum...
War from Afghanistan to the Horn of Africa
THE whole of the area from Afghanistan to the Horn of Africa is now one great killing zone where US-UK imperialism either kills at...
Bring down Blair; bring in a workers’ government
THE crisis of the Blair government has intensified to the point where the government is now more deeply split and divided than ever, while...
War of words between puppet Karzai and US
THE Afghan puppet president, Karzai, has gone to Washington and been forced, by rising Afghan anger, to publicly complain about the actions of the...
Baker Reveals Iraq Get Out Plan
A PANEL of White House advisers led by a former Secretary of State, James Baker, is reported to be recommending a major shift of...
US Puppets Can’t Agree On Iraq Constitution!
IRAQ’S puppet leaders are unable to agree on a constitution for the country despite all of the urgings from the US Secretary of Defence,...
Police demand sources for Dowler leak
THE Metropolitan police are seeking a court order to force Guardian journalists to reveal their sources for the information that Milly Dowler’s ...
Reactionary Gove wants a pro-imperialist syllabus
THE Tory education minister, Michael Gove, has advanced his plan to rid the GCSE English exam of classic books and plays he considers to...
Blair Conversion Seals His Counter-Revolutionary Role
TONY BLAIR, his hands still dripping with the blood of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, and with financial scandals swirling all round...
Blair advocates Thatcherism throughout Europe
BLAIR’S call for Thatcherism throughout Europe has won him the immediate support of all Tories and right wingers, even those who had been portraying...
Campbell Defends Every Word Of The Dodgy Dossier!
BLAIR’S spin-master, Alastair Campbell, told the Chilcot Iraq Inquiry yesterday, that he ‘defends every single word’ of the 2002 dodgy dossier on Iraq’s non-existent...
24.4% (5.64m) of Spanish workers are unemployed!
THE number of unemployed people in Spain reached 5,639,500 at the end of March, with the unemployment rate hitting 24.4%, with youth unemployment at...
US Opening Up Second Front In Africa
MILLIONS of Africans will understandably be fearful at the latest strategic initiative that US President George Bush has just announced. The president has instructed his...
Gate Gourmet workers defend the right to picket – now TGWU must make strike...
YESTERDAY, the determination and militancy of the 670 Gate Gourmet locked-out workers forced the High Court judiciary to acknowledge that they did indeed have...
Carry out our timetable or else, US tells Iraqi puppets
IN his press conference yesterday, the US ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad revealed, with the US commander, General Casey standing next to him, that...
Obama Commission sets out a plan for massive attacks on working class
AFTER President Obama’s announcement that he intends to impose a two-year wage freeze on Federal workers, the Obama appointed US deficit commission has called...
Army Leaks Anti-Iraq War Propaganda
THE leaking of a Ministry of Defence poll commissioned by senior British army officers has acted as an antidote to the fatuous pro-war propaganda...
Withdraw British troops now! Bring down the Blair government!
MORE than 100,000 people are expected to take part in the anti-war demonstration in London today, according to its organisers, the Stop the War...
TAKE ACTION to stop Chase Farm closure!
THE Independent Reconfiguration Panel, set up to cut and close the NHS, has once again recommended to Health Secretary Lansley that the closure of...
GERMAN ELECTIONS: Workers deliver a blow to free market ‘reforms’
AFTER Sunday’s General Election, Germany did not have a Chancellor, or a government yesterday. This plunged the country into a huge economic and political...
Royal Mail – The Way Forward To Victory
THE announcement by the CWU of a programme of two 48-hour national strikes across all sections of Royal Mail, along with a programme of...
US fears its forces can’t fight war on two fronts
THE scale of the insurgency in both Iraq and Afghanistan has got the Pentagon rattled. It fears that the US strategic requirement, to be...
Full support for the Gate Gourmet sacked workers demonstration
THIS Sunday December 4th the Gate Gourmet sacked workers will be marching through Southall to demand that every one of the 700 locked out...
Post-Trident nuclear missiles will be targeting Russia
THE Blair-Brown government intends to spend hundreds of billions of pounds on building a new fleet of nuclear-powered submarines to deliver the replacement of...
UNISON ‘ready to strike’ while Brown is bringing bosses into his cabinet
‘I SEND this message to Gordon Brown. We are prepared to fight. We are prepared to strike. And we are going to win,’ General...
We need more doctors and nurses not less
AS a result of Tory and Labour health reforms designed to break up the NHS, we now have thousands of unemployed nurse graduates and...
Victory To The Gate Gourmet Workers
THE News Line sends greetings to the striking German and the locked-out British Gate Gourmet workers, who are today marching through Hounslow. The German workers...
Kabul Taking The Place Of Saigon In The Pantheon Of US Imperialist Disasters
THE Taleban yesterday carried out another daring attack in the centre of the Afghan capital, Kabul, with gun and shellfire taking place near to...
Eurozone on brink of collapse – forward to Socialist United States of Europe
The news yesterday that the cost of borrowing for Spain has jumped to over 6% will inevitably mean that for the country to stagger...
Libyan Land War Looms!
FIRST of all they embraced Gadaffi like a long lost brother in 2004, just one year after the mass slaughter in Iraq. The...
US Casualties Mount In Iraq
US forces in Iraq suffered 24 deaths in Iraq in May, more than any month since September 2008. The total number of US casualties since...
Time To Get The Tories Out!
CAMERON’S great achievement thus far has been to use the capitalist slump to push society backwards so that the rich are getting richer and...
Get rid of bankrupt capitalism – forward to socialism
EVERYWHERE capitalism is crashing! Yesterday the FTSE 100 index fell to 3472.68 points making a 50 per cent crash from the FTSE’s...
QUEEN’S SPEECH:Making the poor pay & more police powers
THE Queen’s Speech yesterday was dominated by the unprecedented world financial crisis and deepening slump, and its impact on decrepit British imperialism. It opened: ‘My...
Under Brown They Don’t Pay Any Any Taxes
GORDON Brown in his budget got rid of the lowest rate of tax, 10p in the pound, thereby setting out to further punish the...
President Obama is heading for a fall
SPEAKING before the NATO summit President Obama made clear that his business in Europe was to raise a war party for Afghanistan, when...
Morales pledges to rule for the oppressed
EVO MORALES is the first Indian to become the President of Bolivia ending decades of rule by a white ruling class elite which presided...